burrito
The verdict
“burrito” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #66,020 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #66,020
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - prato típico do México
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | burrito |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “burrito” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for burrito is 7 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #66,020 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "prato típico do México".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for burrito, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is burrito, spelled B-U-R-R-I-T-O.
Definition
- 1prato típico do México
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “burrito”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is B-U-R-R-I-T-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.